Chubby Checker and the Wildcats

Opening Act - Butch and the Buckheads

Date: Saturday, May 13th, 2017

Performers

Chubby Checker and the Wildcats

Ernest Evans was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, but grew up in South Philadelphia, where he lived with his parents and two brothers. When he was a small boy, his mother took him to see Sugar Child Robinson, a child piano prodigy and also the famous country singer Ernest Tubb. Young Evans was so impressed, that he vowed to someday enter show business and took his first step toward that goal by forming a street corner harmony group when he was only 11 years old.